onsdag 17. desember 2008

The challange on the Artsy blog was: Make a tag or a card inspired by Tim Holtz. This is my tag:This was one of these "play around and see what you get" - projects. I had a totally different plan, but after 1 1/2 hour searching for my heat gun without any luck, I just had to change my plan to something I could do without my heat gun. I have now realized that I need at least one extra heat gun. Oh well, being artsy by playing around with whatever you can find is at least more challenges, and I just love a challenge!!!!

I started this project by collaging different papers on my tag. As you can see, the papers and the tag itself has been distressed with a paper distresser (if you want just one thing this year - buy this. Seriously. Check out Tim Holtz' Blog for more ideas) and then colored with the edges with distress ink. When all the papers had been glued down, I cut out a rectangle from ordinary copy paper and used this as a mask , and sponged red and brown ink all around the rectangle.

OK. I suddenly decided that this was not enough. Maybe I should have stopped there, but no. I needed more!! So I stamped the Tim Holtz swirl from the new stamp set Reindeer Flight all over the tag with red and brown Distress ink.The snowflake on the top of the tag was painted in several layers with dabbers in white and light blue. Then I distressed it with the tonic scratcher, and added several layers of brown ink. Then I wiped of the excess ink and added more white paint with my dabber. Cool! The bottom snowflake has just gotten a few coats of white ink from my dabber and stickles glitter glue on top to make it shine. The ribbon was stippled with brown Distress ink and then fastened with a brad and holly leaves from Making Memories.

I made the background with red, brown and antique gold acrylic paint. I spread it out on my background paper using an old credit card. I used punchinella over the background and sponged more paint through the holes on the paper to make a bit of pattern and structure. I used a dabber in terracotta and pulled it here and there to make very faint stripes over the background. Let dry. Stamp the motif on acetat using Staz On. Add a double sided sheet of tape over the stamped image. Cut out the motif and cut out some of the squares from the motif. Pull of the backing liner and add perfect pearls here and there on some of the details on the motif. Add Krylon Red Gold around the edges. Glue the motif and two of the cut out squares on the background. Glue mica and gossamer paper as shown. Emboss the saying with gold on brown paper. Cut out the words and glue them to the card as shown. Glue the background to a brown card.

First card - I worked with aluminum metal, a technique I really love. The picture is actually one of my grandfather as a child. I found it in an old family album and scanned, colored and printed it to use on this project. The metal is colored with Staz On and alcohol inks. Thought it turned out rather nice!

The next card here is also metal, gold colored this time. When I was done with the pattern around the heart, I colored it with alcohol inks. And then I put on acrylic paint, and when I dried this of again, I saw that some of the alcohol ink actually rubbed off! I think that wfect was rather cool. The heart is "puffed" up and I have used spackel to keep it from beeing pushed down again.

This card was made up while playing with my alcohol inks (yep - you guessed it - I love my alcohol inks!). I used white glossy for the many-colored panel, red glossy with inks on the word panel and alcohol inks in each of the brads on the side.